[lxc-users] LAN for LXD containers (with multiple LXD servers)?

[Sergiusz Pawlowicz]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> On 2016-09-18 21:05, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> While I can imagine setting up many OpenVPN tunnels between all LXD
>>> servers
>>
>>
>> I cannot imagine that :-) :-)
>>
>> Use tinc, mate. Your life begins :-)
>>
>> https://www.tinc-vpn.org/
>
> I did some reading about tinc before, and according to documentation and
> mailing lists:
>
> - performance may not be so great
>
> - it gets problematic as the number of tinc instances grows (few will be OK,
> dozens will work, but beyond that, the things might get slowish)
>
> - if I'm not mistaken, you need to run a tinc instance per LXD client, not
> per LXD server, so that's extra management and performance overhead (i.e. if
> two tinc clients are running on the same server, they would still encrypt
> the traffic to each other)

I think you must read more, because everything you wrote is simply false.

Or, maybe, try it? :-) :-) :-)

cheers!
S.